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shooting a child and injuring more than one hundred the attack was followed by an intense manhunt for two suspects a through the city suburbs eventually saw one of the alleged bombers a killed and the other wounded and taken into custody g.'s honest to see it looks back at the bit to events mayhem took place here at an area still cordoned off at a sporting event that attracted tens of thousands of participants and thousands of spectators from all over the world two bombs went off just seconds apart from each other at the finish line of the boston marathon the explosions were so strong it's a brief rooftops ripping off people's lives leaving three people dead and over a hundred and seventy five people injured despite all of the money the united states spends on security it was a surveillance camera of a department store that helped pinpoint the two brothers behind the tragedy several memorials like this one have been set up throughout the city of boston to remember the victims of the three people who died include an eight year old boy and two
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young women a twenty nine and twenty three year old over a dozen victims remained in critical condition for several days many of them needing follow up surgeries despite having between the two suspects lived in an apartment on the third floor of this building in cam bridge now they came to the united states the true brothers of chechen origin back in two thousand and two the younger brother joe hart became a naturalized citizen on september eleventh last year the older brother had a green card dreamt of joining the united states olympics boxing team to get a passport all of the people who knew them were shocked to find out that they're the suspects in the bombings but law enforcement officials are saying that they had indications from the russian government to look into the identity of the older brother to milan they did in fact bring him in for questioning back in two thousand and eleven to try to establish any possible links to extremists groups at this time they released the older brother and of course now following the days after. the
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bombings at the finishing line of the boston marathon law enforcement yet again try to establish any possible links the brothers might have had with extremist groups after monday's bombings late on thursday afternoon the f.b.i. finally released photos of the two suspects the ended up coming out of their hiding killing an mit officer hijacking a car releasing the person to whom that car belonged and got in a car chase with police the police officers said that the two brothers were throwing explosive devices out of their car and shooting over a dozen police officers wounded as a result eventually the older brother twenty six year old to milan got out of the car to continue the shootout with the police officers the younger brother stayed in the car ended up running over his older brother getting a win the car which he eventually abandoned and was able to get away on foot in the meantime police officers captured to marilyn and took him to this hospital in boston suffering multiple injuries this is where he died shortly after one thirty
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am on friday morning and then presidents a manhunt for joe hart continued for over twenty hours involving thousands and thousands of federal and local law enforcement officers were currently in watertown just several minutes outside of boston now law enforcement officials have established a perimeter in this area going from door to door trying to locate just harz whereabouts where they ended up with finding him was just a block away from the area they were searching he was hiding out in one of the houses in this area in a dry docked boat a local neighbor in the person living in this area saw a blood trail and led police to the area where just car was hiding now a helicopter off the officials was also able using heat signature technology to locate joe hart hiding out in this boat even though he was covering himself up now it's important to note that. a two hour standoff and shootout between police and
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the heart continued eventually we know that there was negotiating attempts because the officials were very interested in getting him alive eventually they were able to arrest him take him into custody following his arrest your heart was taken to the same hospital where his brother died also suffering severe injuries he's undergoing medical treatment under heavy security and officials are saying that the legal proceedings against him will begin as soon as he's able to communicate after a week filled with tragedy shock fear and a mass lockdown in the city of boston has breathed out a sigh of relief the locals want to see justice and find out the motives behind the terror rocks that made so many question the illusion of safety they have been living under mr marty massachusetts. u.s. authorities are reportedly checking whether the brothers could have any links to russia's most wanted man the ducal omar of while the parents of the suspected
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bombers say this is a complete nonsense and believe american security service is a framed this sons are t. went to the north caucasus city where the brothers family lives or to find out more on their background. that middle and sad naive and amateur boxer who dreamt of representing his adopted country the united states he claimed to have no american friends but married a local woman katherine and they shared a daughter by contrast his younger brother john had a period well adjusted popular in high school and even won a college scholarship yet sadly they were revealed as the main suspects in the boston marathon bombings their father was the first to step up to claim his two boys were set up i'm confident of my children's innocence i'm not sure what how thought that only god knows no one in the household ever owned any weapons i think my children may have been framed their mothers to be duds shared her biggest
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suspicion telling r.c. their her family was under constant afb e.i. surveillance raising the question why her sons were not stopped if they were supposedly planning terrorism in our house nobody talked about the caribbean my son turned it on or got involved in the reagan years ago he was told by a b i like by five he knew they knew what my thought was the one they knew what action and what. they were going how could this happen how could they they were conjoined we. never ever heard this is not my two sons are in an ethnically chechen that sand ny family first moved from kyrgyzstan to. the republican russia's north caucasus this is the house where the brothers' parents live but now there is no one here it's not a nice family a voicing any contact with the media neighbors here are in deep shock at the news
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in disbelief that any of this happening to the totten i have family i know the brothers very well from the childhood we used to live in chechnya together i was the neighbor. then we moved here i know they couldn't have carried out the attack and they couldn't have been involved in it they spent most of their lives in the us studied works that they didn't have any links with the hobbyists and other militants the youngest brother jihad on his space have the social network spent back to mansion this school number one in my high school and none of those places where he used to study however here are very few people remember that saddam lives brothers. the family came to darkest on in september two thousand and one with the boys. then they apparently managed to get papers to leave darkest dawn they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up. in search of a new line and new ambitions indeed three decades in the u.s.
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so hard became an american citizen last year but in that time something or someone made the top of my brothers seemingly turned against the nation which gave them asylum and wish they'd spent the most significant part of their lives by dint of bush nor are reporting from russia that they stand republic well moscow says it's ready to lend a helping hand in the fight against international terrorist cells agreeing to work closely with american experts on the issue and to activists david swanson the things washington will be too upset with security issues now and i want to bring any positive results. there's a huge escalation in security and fear and in police presence i mean there are there's just a horrific scene in boston but the response will be incredibly disproportionate we will see the intense upsurge in fear and even indian police and military
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presence this illusion that technology is going to save us that feeling our skies with drones and covering our buildings with surveillance cameras and treating every airport airline passenger as a potential terrorist just going to save us is to use an incredible delusion we have seen a predictable and predicted even increase in terrorism throughout the course of the global war on the globe or the global war on terror as they call it you cannot fight a war against a tactic and not kill people. and eliminate. violence by other people in fact you have just the opposite effect as top u.s. military commanders have confessed. on top of the tragedy in boston this week also saw the u.s. head with one of its worse industrial disaster as in decades leaving fifteen dead more than one hundred injured and dozens of still missing an explosion at
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a texas fertilizer plant was so powerful it registered as an athlete and could be heard more than one hundred kilometers away. ok ok i think their careers will get you. the resulting explosion wiped out entire neighborhoods of the small town of west and time blocks of houses and apartments were mangled by the blast wave as one of the nearby retirement home at school and they mediate aftermath the notion is fear was a hung heavy a would be area high as could be seen burning for miles around especially spent by the texas department of public safety described what he witnessed. i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area search some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same chrono exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. and for
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days on the flames are endowed to yet and there are reports that ruptured chemical tanks at the plant i know leaking toxins and sparking small fire ends there is also been quarantined with locals relocated on rescue a search for missing people on to the debris it's also a marriage that of the may have been serious safety shuffles at the plant perhaps encouraged by decades of negligence by inspector is that the jeffrey pattison is a professor at the school of medicine at wisconsin university he thinks that like federal regulation is a to blame there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulations so business can thrive and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the consequences in the end and so i think we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are promulgating new regulations if there is
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a mother who should emerge trouble that will allow all of the cleanup to be in much more lax than it currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's this tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that's it we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedent. eyewitness accounts of stories from those injured expert comment all of them in the pool at our t dot com there you can also watch more videos of the off to mobs of the blogs and find out what the dangers is and now. project in a few moments here on r t we talk to the world's top whistleblower why do we can exert a julian us on just about his meeting with the brains main opposition figure. also ahead for you israeli police parade ahead and cup teenager died son of an angry
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palestinian crowd saying they just wanted to call but the protest is more on that. we are business a lot of problems. because no one thought to drink no good school. mates when you feel sorry for. other local what's notion of well there's a law in the local needs you want a community l.n.g. motion will be used. i don't. give just don't for a matter of artist i was fired sparks i was fired. all fired. fired right.
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you're watching r.t. human rights groups claim israeli police use and arrested palestinian teenager as a human shield there are said to have show showed the youths off to an angry crowd in an attempt to calm the protesters archies policia has more from tel aviv. on friday israeli police paraded those handcuffed palestinian youth during protests that were taking place in the palestinian neighborhood of abu dis which is on the
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outskirts of east jerusalem human rights groups have accused the army of using the child as a human shield defense for children international palestine has posted a video on you tube that shows helmeted is raided border policeman removing this young palestinian who is identified as mohammad asif interior from the army jeep and forcing him to stand both sides then with handcuffed hands raised above his head human rights groups have released a statement saying that they're outraged that israeli soldiers continue to use palestinian children in this way as human shields with impunity the claim is that the teen was deliberately exposed to danger after he had been taken into custody and the israeli army spokesperson however has said that the move was to calm the violence especially after four hundred palestinian protesters attacked an israeli border police vehicle for almost four hour winds earlier this week palestinians mock the annual palestinian prisoners day and this was possibly the palestinian national council back in one thousand nine hundred eighty four as
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a means of consolidating efforts to support palestinian prisoners who are currently being held in israeli jails on wednesday about three thousand palestinian prisoners refused a food this is in solidarity with the event at the same time activists told fifty metres of the prison fence that off that prison which is on the outskirts of ramallah in the west bank where they mounted a palestinian flag and this forced the i.d.f. as well as israeli border police to use why it control measures to disperse the group also in gaza hundreds of people marched from gaza city to the offices of the international committee of the red cross the palestinian authority has sent and urgent matter to the european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton calling for a prompt intervention to save the life of prisoners in israeli. generals who are currently conducting a hunger strike the most notable among them is a prison or something or other is sol we who has been striking for some three hundred days there are four thousand nine hundred palestinians who are currently
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held in israeli jails hundred sixty eight of them are under administrative detention without charge or trial. but phrase controversial formula one race is set to start as planned on sunday despite protests from the opposition desperately trying to draw attention to human rights abuses in the gulf kingdom tens of thousands of people have been venting their anger the same the moniker he is using the event to paper over the crackdown on pro-reform activists protest movement has been accusing the government of violating freedom of speech values opposition leader not deal with jab is the most prominent figure to stay in prison as many believe he was thrown behind bars just awful tweeting against the rulers are just quote a boy who reports now on his struggle. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian a song so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder
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has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chat about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking your son why he was so keen to invite me to be over a job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show braid has nine hundred thousand people it has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers hards predominantly of the population are. sincere the rest of a number of other activists in the brain screen. never read john. writes or write what's the most prominent voice for the brain it's pretty speaking to julian assange to be over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal and if you believed you did just tools you'll go and. you
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will tell me your. difficulties and you know that the changes that you are fighting for. it's been good for hundred sophia's is not an easy thing to change to achieve those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and my dad's price might be your life and to be over a job that christ has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to a staunch keeping him in prison on the current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government to cartoonish former despotism developers on the same standard criticizing you for it's hard for people with that much courage because. you can't be coward so i think it's long term prospects are quite good amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses
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in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over john's going to be tasting freedom any time soon ali boy see london's ecuadorian embassy. saeed shah be a leading figure in bahrain so freedom movement says the level of security in bahrain is far from acceptable for an international event the speak is if you wish it was very good out of hundred or so. around the country schools have been around. with chemical girls or do you guys are. learning then two hundred people have been enlisted in the process. so if you want to call that the people there if you were still trying but we did in reality it is not. required at all we also. don't really need to reconsider the future over the point in bahrain why did you. talk about not giving an inch in terms of well if you go to.
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well the jobbers and big successful is now officially at the head of the world's most oil rich nation having been inaugurated as the president of venezuela but the guy was far from smithsonian as migiro was seven protesters killed in clashes with police this week thousands of supporters of opposition candidate and brigade gabriella's took to the streets around the country demanding a total vote recount police and national guard units responded with tear gas and plastic bullets country's top electoral body did finally agree to partial audit but caution that victory is irreversible after william robinson professor of sociology at the university of california says there may be an ongoing absence to destabilize the situation. this is not a new tactic on the part of washington another type of the. not a new tactic on the part of the new of the venezuelan opposition and generally the
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far right in america which aligns with washington the idea is you have an all out to staples and this civilization campaign this is simply another tactic within that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity of trying to put it in two thousand and two the massive us financing for the internal opposition including for property rights and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when there's all the action which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of a government in this case them to do the job with your government around an election it will launch violence and trying to create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the results and this is the at least of this is an incredible the focusing on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive fall because mexico's a close ally of the united states it's the u.s. immediately work recognizes the results only remove the charges by opposition because for the researchers no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going
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to sort of them elections. over fifty percent of eligible iraqi voters have turned to cost their ballots in the first provincial election since the us troops withdrawal the vote was marred by violence with bombs and mortar shells exploding in several polling station injuring four the election caps several weeks of turbulent campaigning with over a dozen tendence assassinated out of several thousand running for various government posts to provinces postpone the vote altogether citing a lack of security limited results are expected within several days the newly elected authorities will have to deal with a country facing deep divisions along sectarian and ethnic lines driven even deeper by contesting claims to its vast oil reserves arches lewsey governor has more on that. they call them those who face death gone once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to
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be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraqi soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army advances if there's even a single misfire it could spark and new war we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga to defend against any surprises for attacks of course we will retaliate at the heart of the disputed territory is cure kuku which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them. it's like a small version of iraq sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's disputed because . but of course the other reason is cuckoo. the oil fires illustrate the
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main reason that this land is so hotly contested here kuka thinning out an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and annexed this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export a staggering five trillion dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how or oil has transformed kurdistan into a boom town and the capital of their bill construction projects dot the landscape there are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here the region looks and
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feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two lucy catherine of r t reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. and a momentous r.t. takes a look at ads in the booming gold rush in colombia do stay with us. all know who a lazy bureaucratic and trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals are illegal and to these for using vulgar already in the media one major flaw of many with those is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess
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these words are so awful that they cannot. write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where word list is just silly there is a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media connects up more and i is ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. comes down twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they could forbid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sweeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion.
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